Vega Sicilia Reserva Especial '10 NV

1 bottle of non-vintage Vega Sicilia Reserva Especial '10, a wine that has great purity as well as stature.

In 1982 El Enebro S.A., a company owned by the Álvarez Mezquíriz family, acquired the winery and the vineyards from the Venezuelan businessman Miguel Neumann. From that year onwards, the family, with David Álvarez and his sons and daughters Pablo, Jesús David, María José, Emilio, Juan Carlos, Elvira and Marta, have developed a policy of harmonization of present innovative techniques required by the wine sector with the traditional winemaking process. The vineyard area has been extended and the vineyards and vines, which were almost half a century old, have been replanted in rotation.

Vega Sicilia is unquestionably a unique wine, and one of the great Spanish classics. Its personality not only comes from the maximum quality of the grape and the rigour involved in its manufacture, but also, and above all, from the care for detail that the Álvarez family has succeeded in transmitting to the wines. The Vega Sicilia wines enjoy a certain old but stately air, like period furniture; wines with great elegance, finesse, complexity and the ample capacity for maintaining their characteristics in the bottle for a long time.

This youthful effort exhibits jammy blackberry, cherry, mineral, smoke, cedar, and new oak aromas as well as flavors. Full-bodied, dense, and concentrated, with great purity in addition to stature, this Reserva Especiale can be drunk now, but ideally needs another 2-3 years of cellaring. It should age for 2-3 decades.